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drivers/exec: Fix handling of capabilities for unprivileged tasks #16643

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drivers/exec: Fix handling of capabilities for unprivileged tasks
elprans Mar 23, 2023
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Fix test
elprans Mar 27, 2023
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Expand the test and add a changelog entry
elprans Mar 27, 2023
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions .changelog/16643.txt
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```release-note:bug
driver/exec: Fixed a bug where `cap_drop` and `cap_add` would not expand capabilities
```
11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion drivers/shared/executor/executor_linux.go
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Expand Up @@ -526,8 +526,17 @@ func configureCapabilities(cfg *lconfigs.Config, command *ExecCommand) {
}
default:
// otherwise apply the plugin + task capability configuration
//
// The capabilities must be set in the Ambient set as libcontainer
// performs `execve`` as an unprivileged user. Ambient also requires
// that capabilities are Permitted and Inheritable. Setting Effective
// is unnecessary, because we only need the capabilities to become
// effective _after_ execve, not before.
cfg.Capabilities = &lconfigs.Capabilities{
Bounding: command.Capabilities,
Bounding: command.Capabilities,
Permitted: command.Capabilities,
Inheritable: command.Capabilities,
Ambient: command.Capabilities,
}
}
}
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43 changes: 33 additions & 10 deletions drivers/shared/executor/executor_linux_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -628,27 +628,40 @@ func TestExecutor_Capabilities(t *testing.T) {
testutil.ExecCompatible(t)

cases := []struct {
user string
caps string
user string
capAdd []string
capDrop []string
capsExpected string
}{
{
user: "nobody",
caps: `
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
capsExpected: `
CapInh: 00000000a80405fb
CapPrm: 00000000a80405fb
CapEff: 00000000a80405fb
CapBnd: 00000000a80405fb
CapAmb: 0000000000000000`,
CapAmb: 00000000a80405fb`,
},
{
user: "root",
caps: `
capsExpected: `
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 0000003fffffffff
CapEff: 0000003fffffffff
CapBnd: 0000003fffffffff
CapAmb: 0000000000000000`,
},
{
user: "nobody",
capDrop: []string{"all"},
capAdd: []string{"net_bind_service"},
capsExpected: `
CapInh: 0000000000000400
CapPrm: 0000000000000400
CapEff: 0000000000000400
CapBnd: 0000000000000400
CapAmb: 0000000000000400`,
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I was doing a little testing locally without Nomad to compare this approach to what Docker does, and I was a bit surprised to see they seem to have the same problem we do!

$ docker run -it \
    --user nobody \
    --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=1024 \
    --cap-drop ALL \
    --cap-add NET_BIND_SERVICE \
    busybox:1 nc -lvp 443
nc: bind: Permission denied

When I dug into that, I found that it looks like they decided not to fix this moby/moby#38664 moby/moby#8460 in lieu of telling folks to set the net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start, which is obviously not the only capability that people want (Docker sets it to 0 by default!). I think we're doing the right thing here but I want to pull in @picatz and @shoenig for a consultation on this just to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.

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which is obviously not the only capability that people want

Yes, another example of where this issue hits us: we sometimes need to use a template to generate a wrapper shell script over an artifact-downloaded binary. There is no way to specify the desired file mode in the artifact stanza, so the binary ends up without an executable bit set. Consequently, without a working cap_add = ["fowner"] the exec driver is effectively broken for this use case.

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I've opened #16692 with some notes about how this same issue impacts the docker driver and can't be fixed because the problem is upstream, which will result in some docs updates. I'm going to give this one more pass and make sure it works as I'd expect with a restrictive allow_caps.

},
}

for _, c := range cases {
Expand All @@ -662,7 +675,17 @@ CapAmb: 0000000000000000`,
execCmd.ResourceLimits = true
execCmd.Cmd = "/bin/bash"
execCmd.Args = []string{"-c", "cat /proc/$$/status"}
execCmd.Capabilities = capabilities.NomadDefaults().Slice(true)

capsBasis := capabilities.NomadDefaults()
capsAllowed := capsBasis.Slice(true)
if c.capDrop != nil || c.capAdd != nil {
calcCaps, err := capabilities.Calculate(
capsBasis, capsAllowed, c.capAdd, c.capDrop)
require.NoError(t, err)
execCmd.Capabilities = calcCaps
} else {
execCmd.Capabilities = capsAllowed
}

executor := NewExecutorWithIsolation(testlog.HCLogger(t))
defer executor.Shutdown("SIGKILL", 0)
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return s
}

expected := canonical(c.caps)
expected := canonical(c.capsExpected)
tu.WaitForResult(func() (bool, error) {
output := canonical(testExecCmd.stdout.String())
if !strings.Contains(output, expected) {
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